[dba-SQLServer]Can anyone give me personalized help

Folks,

I replaced my hard disk in my server and now I am not getting a successful
SQL Server install.  It appears that it runs, I can start the server, but as
soon as I go into Enterprise manager and attempt to drill down to the server
under server group, it stops the SQL Server (the icon in the toolbar goes
red), hangs for a long period (60 seconds or so?) with "Establishing
connection to SQL Server and checking security" in the status bar of
Enterprise manager.  The server eventually displays but there are no
databases at all in the database window, not even the system databases, and
if I attempt to look at some other pieces under there one of them causes a
gpf and EM closes.

Something is seriously wrong, and all my billing data is in a backup waiting
to be restored.

I told it to use an existing directory that already had my old database in
it when I did the install.  Could that be the problem?



John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com